"Painting has its reasons that reason does not know"
, could say conceptual art, referring to the philosophical aphorism of Blaise Pascal in his
Pensées
.
Born in 1941 in the commune of Trois-Moutiers, in Vienne, near Châtellerault, Claude Rutault was the type of reasoner who modifies the common laws of art through his gaze and his will.
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A painter who did not paint like everyone else.
Or rather a painter who painted like an unfinished sculpture (
Claude Rutault, L'Inventaire
, Geneva, Mamco, 2015).
The sobriety of his gesture responded to a long preliminary theoretical discourse, a sort of conceptual labyrinth with an almost ubiquitous flavor (he also deconstructed the words, banished capital letters at the beginning of the sentence).
This discreet host of Parisian openings, always withdrawn in the animation of the lively evenings of his gallery owner Emmanuel Perrotin, died on Friday May 27.
He was 80 years old.
Portrait of Claude Rutault by Claire Dorn, 2017. © courtesy Galerie Perrotin
Claude Rutault is known for his paintings that…
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